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Fragrances You Love and Hate...
My apologies if this has been posted before, I'm still reading my way through threads/posts slowly...
This is open for ALL to post – I’m curious what fragrances you love/hate and why… I love and adore Jasmine Absolute - I always have done. Jasmine has a warm, sweet, exotic and rich floral fragrance. I also, like Oregano, Basil, Ginger, and Eucalyptus for the medicinal, clean, herby fragrances and Rose for its sweet floral fragrance. I hate lavender as I find it too woody and heavy, yet, it’s a useful oil for the house, skin, hair and first aid. What about you? |
I am very sensitive to fragrances. Most of them give me a migraine so when I find a scent I can wear I stick with it!!!
I love Happy by Clinique. It's my all time favorite. My favorite from Bath & Body Works is lavender vanilla. It relaxes me. The fragrance I am wearing now is called Unspoken. Its from Avon and is advertised by Fergie. (<--- grrrr) I love a good smelling butch. And sometimes it can be dangerous if he smells too good!!! I absolutely hate any kind of rose smelling perfume. I think my kindergarten teacher wore Rose perfume and to this day I get a sick, uneasy feeling in my tummy if I smell it. Wow that takes me waaayyy back!!! :-) Jules |
My smell likes and dislikes
I absolutely adore the rose and the carnation, with carnation probably being my favorite.
I love the smell of Johnsons baby lotion, it reminds me of my son when he was little :) I love the smell of morning dew on a fresh spring morning. I love the smell of Downy "Fresh Linen" on my clean sheets. I love "Dream More" perfume by Gap. I love "Hugo Boss" for men. I hate the smell of skunks, burning or rotting flesh (yes, I've smelled it, I'm a nurse), Eucalyptus (it's too medicine like for me)....that's enough for me :p |
I love patchouli. I have various blends of it. My fav perfume is Samsara which has a jasminey scent to it. Lavender is nice but overdone everywhere. basil is my fav scent for the car. Eucalyptus was so overdone in the 70s and 80s I cant tolerate it in the home now.
People are much more careful with scents now. I remember when women were encouraged to layer their scent and perfume, bath oil, powder, lotion, etc were all necessities! Thank god its not that heavily marketed anymore! I think Avon is the only dinosaur who does that. (and I love Avon!) Now when a "layered" or scent-intoxicated person is around me, I gag. It happened the other day in fact and while I love femmey stuff, wow, that is so not cool anymore! My all time fav scent to wear and have in my house is Nag Champa. I have a past life association with it... |
I like camomile and cinnamon ,also cucumber. I love the smell of wet cedar and burning hickory. I don't like rose scented things or too floral smelling things. Don't like the smell of curry cooking.
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FAVES: Nag Champs...Patchouli....freshly laundered Downy Vanilla Lavender scented sheets and towels.....hickory and/or oak fires....scents of fall...pumpkins...hay...mums...
DISLIKES: Heavily perfumed women...a dab'll do ya, for me, anyway. I do not like the rose smelling ones...my ALL time fave on a woman is Lolita by Lempicke...but I am sure, someone, somewhere, will entice me something again...<smiles>. For me..I LOVE Diesel Men's Cologne, Axe Body Wash and After Bath Spray...Dark Temptations...and I got a new one this year...PS...don't know who makes it...but dayummmm does it smell awesome when I put it on... I don't care for the Avon scents. LOng time ago, there was a scent available at the 5 & dime (dating myself here, too) called Evening In Paris...I can NOT stand the scent of that...ewwwww |
I love the smell of cut grass.
I hate when the femme im dating wears sickly sweet scents.. like Vanilla I hate the smell of Vanilla. I wear Fahrenheit colonge thats my scent |
I love the smell of Vanilla.
I love ths smell of a new textbook. I love the contrasting scent of my showering after him. The scent of apples and cinnamon makes me nervous. I enjoy any clean scent or soft scent, but I don't like flowery scents.(excluding fresh flowers) |
I love the smells of gasoline and tar.
They remind me growing up living near a Marina in Jersey, and popping tar bubbles in the street. heh |
I make a point to spend as much of myo life smelling like coconut, I'm Floridian :)
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I love the smell of freshly cut grass, the smell of the city where I was born, the smell of clean sheets against my face and the smell of a new book.
I don't like flowery smells or strong cheap perfumes. I dislike the smell of certain flowers and hate the smell of unkempt people. Interestingly enough, I also love the smell of an airplane and the airport. |
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If we are talking about perfumes/colognes:
Miami Glow by J-Lo. I love it!!! Happy Heart by Clinique Fierce by Abercrombie and Fitch (will make me melt into the arms of a butch...ahhhh) As far as other scents that I like: Pine scented candles in winter Smell of rain Peony flowers Newborn baby smell |
I was born anosmic...means I have no sense of smell at all.
Every day someone, somewhere will say "here, smell this". There are so many things I would love to smell A girl Food cooking Baking bread Grass Girls Tar Woodland Gas Fire Did I say girls already? The Beach Myself The countryside after rain Girls My family My house now that I've stopped smoking My cat Gunpowder Friends et al It's odd...it's hard to explain a smell. Remember that scene in Mask where the guy explains how something feels to a blind girl to explain a sight? Well it's even harder to explain a smell. Smell is our most primal sense... it's linked to the amygdula, which is our reptilian brain. (I'm sure someone will correct me on this and I would love to know more...where does this anosmia come from??) I so envy y'all yer sense of smell. |
I am very sensitive to smells good and bad.
That being said there are many fragrances that really get to me the #1 being Patchouli. I can smell patchouli at 50 paces and it instantly gives me a migraine and makes me feel nauseous...uugghh. Just thinking about it bothers me! I very rarely wear cologne but if I do its Cool Waters. I prefer clean non overpowering perfumes on femmes. The flowery really strong scents give me migraines. I would like to add I believe many people dont really know how to wear perfumes/colognes. I like just a faint scent which catches my attention and makes me want to get closer ;) I dont like so overpowering that I can smell you 3 aisles over in WalMart lol |
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I too, hate the smell of burnt/rotting flesh – I wear Eucalyptus under my nose in an attempt to keep the smell at bay. |
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I love the smell of cut grass after the rains – I’ve been known to stand outside just smelling the air…… I’m sure the neighbours think I’m a weirdo, lol! |
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I know I'm odd but I like the smell of cow dung....it reminds me of visiting the local dairy with my Father when I was kid. Also reminds me of working on a dairy farm in Maine. I have chickens and ummm not that fond of their smells lol
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I have a HUGE problem with people who's personal hygiene is utter pants! I've an OCD about hygiene - the hot temperatures I'm forgiving IF it's a fresh sweat, if that makes sense? Otherwise my elegantly blunt nature will say something, lol! *Blushes* |
I love the smell of new carpeting and new eletronics.
I wear Gio by Armani. I like a cripy clean soapy smell for me. I never described this before but reading some posts I think this is a good description, I like a femmes perfume to be clean smelling with a fruity and very subtle powdery mix to it. Does that make sense? I love the way Clubman talc powder and after shave smell I use them alot. I don't like skin so soft, I don't like charlie, jontue, any heavy loud old lady smelling perfume. I don't like the smell of febreeze. |
Non-perfumes I love the smell of:
Office supply stores The air after a thunderstorm Oranges Fresh apple pie Cut grass Baking bread Maple syrup (I mean the real deal, not Mrs. Butterworth's) Fresh paint Clean baby Curry The ocean Perfume/cologne: It's really individual, what I like on a date. Every chemistry is different. Having said that, mega extra points to anyone who can wear Ralph Lauren Polo. On me: Cool Water for work Armani She CKOne Paris Amour from B&BW Vanilla Fields Eternity Elizabeth Taylor's Passion and White Diamonds And I guess I'm an old lady ;). I love L'Air du Temps, Shalimar, Charlie, Chanel #5, White Shoulders. |
For some reason when I was a kid, I loved the smell of the vacuum in the vacuum closet and I used to close myself in there and I couldn't get enough of the vacuum smell... haha. Every time I smell something similar I love it!! Weird!!
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Don't laugh but I love walking down the dog food isle at the super market...just love that smell
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Likes/loves:
Provocative Woman by Elizabeth Arden (self-explanatory) cucumber melon (it's crisp and clean and summery) honeysuckle and orange blossoms, together or separate (smells like home) magnolias and magnolia scents (smells like home) jasmine (home again) citrus scents (smells like FL) an infant's sweet milky smell my fresh washed hair laundry in the dryer and the scent wafting from the outside vents chili in the pot during winter fresh mud, best for pies Dislikes/hates: body odor of the stank variety aka funk, not to be confused with funk music or funky fresh beats sweaty sheets skunk poo from anyone or anything first pee of the day gas obnoxious burps pretty much all mandatory bodily functions, but not sneezes. I just sneezed and didn't smell a thing. My nose tingles though. :blink: sicky sweet scents old-fashioned scents stagnant water |
Thanks 1QuirkyKiwi for the thread. It's interesting how people love or hate certain things.
I don't wear perfume per se but I still have a bottle of Poison from decades ago (the perfume, not the toxic chemical, although some might say they are one and the same). Somehow it reminds me of grape Kool-aid. :koolaid: It's way to heavy for me to wear now but I like the smell in the bottle. My favorite smell is summer rain on hot blacktop. Reminds of being a kid and lying face-up in the cul-de-sac when it rained cause the pavement was warm and the rain was so cool and refreshing. I still love rain on my face. And fresh picked tomatoes are right up there. |
I wear nothing but Escential Oil cocktail potions:
I like the scent of Dragon's Blood and Jasmine w/ Y'Lang Y'Lang. I even like the scent of "Forest Rain" - which I buy once in a great while. I love bonfires - the smokey scent of burning wood. I'm also fond of the scent of mint - there used to be fields upon fields of mint, where I grew up and I loved how dense the air smells when the mint is ready for harvest. I also love the smell of fresh cut hay and the delightful scent of the Pacific ocean air. :stillheart: |
i don't wear mens cologne or deodorant.
but i like the smell. i do wash my hair in mens shampoo. Axe is a favorite. the back of an Axe bottle says, GET GIRL APPROVED HAIR ... Directions: Wash, Attract, Repeat. that's cute lol. when your gf tells you she washed the pillow cases in Axe, you know it has to be smellin' right! my fave perfume is Happy. i like the smell of Beautiful on someone else. like say she just left the room and i walk in ... i know shes been here. love that. sun dried clothes High Maintenance liquid detergent ... you don't have to wear perfume or cologne when using this. when you first cut a watermelon, mmmm the smell of a mechanic. not any mechanic. just those special ones. |
Smells I love:
The ocean Freshly cut grass A clean barn (hay and horses especially) Apples Wood smoke Puppies Freshly laundered sheets Eucalyptus and spearmint bath salts I'm sure I have more...just can't think of them right now. As far as perfume or cologne, I separate odors into what I consider "cool" and "warm" smells....I like the "cool" ones, the fresh, clean scents. I can't stand anything flowery or heavy or "warm". |
My scent is Champs E'lyses and I wear nothing else....
Other scents I adore: ~Coconut ~Cucumber/Melon (like Gemmie)...it smells clean! ~Bleach ~Anything citrus ~Cinnamon ~Vanilla ~I just bought a LOT of Spice Cake candles from Pier I.....YUMM! ~Lavender ~Peppermint ~Baby lotion (Johnson & Johnson) I'm sure there are more.... I cannot stand the smell of pachouli for some reason....or exhaust from a car. BLECH. And I do not like to smell someone before I SEE them....in other words, if one bathes in their cologne, they have used too much, imho. I feel as though I can almost taste it. And it makes me gag. |
Mmmm...
I love a good thread and this is always a great topic. I won't give away what I wear just cuz...but I get that wonderful comment from BOTH men and women...
"What IS that? It's just amazing!!!"...gotta love that right? Although I have a few favorites, "Miracle" for men will positively make me break out in stilettos and negligee :blink: |
I totally lost my sense of smell a year and a half ago. Since then, a tiny bit of it has come back. It's sort of like - if the ability to smell were like the ability to hear, I can only detect a few notes. There is a sweet note that I can smell in pretty much every perfume and incense stick. It's the same note - I can't differentiate. And there's the dead smell that chicken and eggs have - the smell that's hidden by the delicious smells when a person has a full sense of smell. Similarly, my hair conditioner smells like chemicals, but I can't smell the scent they cover over the chemicals with. If I could find a good conditioner for my hair that was all happy and organic, I would switch.
Back when I could smell, I loved so many smells. I wish my brain could call up the memory of a smell the way it could a voice or a person's face. It's very rare for me to remember a smell. I loved incense. Frustratingly I am finally with a person who also enjoys the smell, and I can't enjoy it anymore! Such is life, right? But sandalwood, nag champa, patchouli - those were my favorites. For perfume, I never was drawn much to the fruity scents. I liked strong, dark scents. Opium was my favorite for years, though the last time I remember smelling it, it just reminded me of the pain of my early adulthood. I enjoyed Obsession and Obsession for Men, Drakkar Noir for Men. I loved the smell of Chanel No. 19 because it smelled like nostalgia and the pages of a long-unopened book. And I wore Chanel Coco for about a year and loved it. I discovered Paloma Picasso in an antique store and found it intoxicating. I bought a fresh batch and still loved it, though some days it appealed to me more than others. A date told me once I smelled like icecream when I wore it. I also loved to wear Arabian Musk or White Musk oils from time to time, because I found them lovely. But I came to understand others didn't agree - so I only indulged on occasion. The last smell I remember smelling was a pink mimosa flower. They have a very pretty scent - light and sweet. It's one of those smells that's been with me since childhood. I'm glad I took the time to smell it. I loved the smell of honeysuckle, hay, freshly-cut grass, roses, desert sage. Heck, I miss the smell of dirt. Dirt had a good smell to it. |
Someone wearing Lagerfeld melts my butter. I don't have to see you. I don't have to know you. I just smell it and I am instantly turned on! Mercy!
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*Alurra, You’re welcome! I’m fascinated by people’s love and hate of fragrances – I’m very sensitive to smells and have been known to refuse a date purely because I didn’t like the smell of the woman, only later finding out that the person wasn’t that nice. I confess to liking to meet up before a ‘real’ date so I can smell her/hym without cologne.
To me, the Poison perfume is a toxic chemical – One of my Maori Grandmother’s friends always used to wear it. *Twitches* *Inuus, Ummm……yes! Your odd, but, the I’ve been told I’m odd for some of the smells I like……leather for one. *Blushes* *Jagg, Funny you should say about Febreeze, many people I know can’t stand that smell, me included. *Guihong, Lavender is in there with ‘Grannies’ Dressing Table smell of fragrances as you described, lol! I love the smell of oranges, but, sadly, I’m allergic to them – even just the smell will start an allergic reaction. *Katzchen, I use essential oils a lot – in my homemade shampoos, etc. Mint is another one of those that make me feel nauseous, yet, for many, it’s a brilliant digestive aid. *Nat, I hope your sense of smell returns. Thank you for sharing the fragrances you remember and can smell now. *……Ahem! Southpaw, would you like me to hand you a towel? LOL! My apologies for not replying to you all personally, I’m about to head out the door to Henley-on-Thames for the weekend. Can I ask you, all? What is the ONE fragrance you would take with you to a dessert Island? Mine is Jasmine......(and Manuka if I could sneak it in - for it's medicinal properties of course, lol!) Manuka is a fragrance I love - it's my childhood memories of playing and falling over, getting grazed and being soothed by it's fragrance and healing my 'war wounds', lol! |
I'm very sensitive to smell, so most colognes and perfumes give me migraines. I've found a few that are subtle though, which is good. My favorite for me, and the only kind I usually wear, is Givenchy Very Irresistible.
http://www.cityperfume.com.au/produc...76256_zoom.jpg For any other fragrances I like things that are scented with vanilla or a vanilla base. Peppermint and coconut are my favorite scents for body spritz, or even candles. |
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